The Cargo of Ward C The hospital train pulled into the station at Fort Drummond in upstate New York on September 23, 1944, carrying a cargo that made even seasoned...
Chapter I: V-J Day and the Barracks of Camp Shelby On August 15, 1945, a wave of ecstatic, near-deafening sound rolled across the United States. In New York, thousands of...
The Sky Went White for Days November 12, 1944: The Gathering Storm The sky over Montana’s Bitterroot Valley hung low and heavy, a bruised sheet of slate gray that promised...
Chapter I: The Fragrant Dawn The announcement came on the morning of August 12, 1945, fracturing the gray, heavy stillness of the Yorkshire countryside. For forty-two German women confined behind...
The Frost in the Desert January 12th, 1944. The coldest winter Texas had seen in half a century descended like an iron curtain over the high desert. Across the United...
The Journey into the Ice The gears of the heavy army transport truck ground together with a metallic shriek that echoed off the sheer rock faces of the canyon. It...
The Echo of Thunder Right now, somewhere across the wind-scoured grasslands of central Montana, a small group of about eight hundred American bison is walking across a piece of land...
The headline flashed across the screen like something out of a sensationalist tabloid, the kind designed to make you scroll past or click with a cynical roll of your eyes:...
The Hammering in the Timber It is exactly six o’clock in the morning somewhere in southern Michigan. The calendar has tipped deep into autumn; the leaves are halfway down, carpeting...
The Madness at the Edge of the Woods In the spring of 2001, a couple stood at the edge of three and a half thousand acres of worn-out, exhausted farmland...